Edited: 7/29/13
Not sure what to say, other than I'm posting this shit really early, guess I got bored who knows…but I really like this chapter, I hope y'all do too! Um the only warning I have is POV switching around a bit oh and I'm just going to go ahead and warn everyone now Bakura will NOT be in the story for a while. I know y'all are like "well who's POV is switching" well read the chappie and find out wheee, also make sure to fall out of your seats and die of laughter, I sure did! SNAILS :D
DISCLAIMER:
I do not under any circumstances, own Yu-gi-oh. If I did, then Bakura would have been saved just like the rest of the villains. And there would be a lot of Darkshipping.
I own: The OC Characters, the plot, the Realm of Light, the title Queen Crazy, my Bakura plushie, my Bakura poster and of course myself.
Warning: This story is Darkshipping/Casteshipping so if you have some type of problem with the pairing of Bakura and Atem then you obviously need to hit the back button because I love that pairing. So I'm writing this story. This is a Yaoi story as well and there will be eventually a lemon. If you don't like that either then I suggests you just leave this page.
I hope y'all enjoy the new and fabulous version of this story.
ENJOY :D
Chapter Twenty-five: The Twin Debate
[Atem's POV]:
My eyes widened and I gasped, there lying in a heap was Zorc and Diabound. They were intertwined together, Diabound had her tail wrapped around Zorc's throat, and Zorc had his dragon biting down on one of Diabound's wings. They looked like they were in a bind, unable to get free from one another.
Diabound roared trying to break free, but Zorc bit down harder. How did they even get here in the first place? Why wasn't Zorc being burnt to death? Diabound blasted Zorc with Helical Shock Wave. Zorc roared in pain, getting up. He looked around, eyes wide with fear.
"What the hell?" he hissed. He started to fly over to the gate, trying to get to into the Shadow Realm. Diabound blasted him, sending him flying, he hit a tree hard.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Mariku asked walking over where I was standing, still in complete shock that Zorc was here in the Realm of Light.
"Back to the Shadow Realm, is it not obvious fool?" Zorc hissed.
"Good luck going back there!" I spat. "Now, tell me, where is Bakura!"
"Oh him…" Zorc said standing up; he placed a claw on his chin in mock thought. "Why he's dead of course!"
"You're fucking lying!" Mariku spat. "If he was dead then how the hell is Diabound still around?"
That was a good question. So did that mean that Bakura still existed somewhere? Where was he? I knew he was unconscious the last time I saw him, so he wouldn't answer my calls anyway, so there would be no point in calling his name.
"You're running out of lies Zorc." I said,"Face it: You lost"
"Do I look like I've lost to you fools?" he spat "I'm still around!"
Diabound blasted him, but Zorc blasted her as well. I noticed that his power was very weak here, he still had some due to the fact that we were near the gate and there was darkness in the area we were at, but his power was greatly reduced.
"You're weaker." I pointed out.
Zorc roared in aggravation, throwing an attack at me, but Mariku pushed me out of the way just in time.
"Looks like someone else fell for the Pharaoh, guess you get two bitches huh?" Zorc cackled.
"I only want Bakura, no one else will do." I snapped
Zorc laughed "It's a shame too."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You could have anyone in the world, yet you chose that fool?!" Zorc laughed. "How pathetic!"
Diabound blasted Zorc in the back of the head. Zorc hissed in pain.
"Why you little bitch!" he roared turning around to blast Diabound. Diabound moved out of the way. Zorc's fire hit the gate.
Diabound and Zorc fought. Diabound blasted Zorc with Thunder Force sending him flying into the Realm of Light. Mariku and I walked into the Realm of Light following Diabound. Zorc groaned trying to get up. But Diabound blasted him again and again. Zorc hissed in aggravation and in pain.
Suddenly, the light became extremely intense; Zorc looked over, shielding his eyes, just as he had done when Horakhty arrived. The light dimmed down and there she was ...furious!
"What the HELL are you doing in my realm?!" Horakhty hissed glaring at Zorc.
Zorc just chuckled. "Well, well sister, I see that you've made your presence known. It's too bad that I've already did what I set out to do."
"Oh really, and what's that?" she asked.
"Getting Touzoku away from the Pharaoh." he replied, standing up.
Horakhty looked over at me. "Atem, what did I tell you about Akefia going into the Shadow Realm?"
"I-"I began.
"Why was Touzoku forbidden to go into my realm?" Zorc asked. "We're you afraid that he would gain all his power and senses back?"
"Quite the opposite actually." Horakhty said. "Where is he?"
"Oh, he's in a pit of lava-"
Suddenly Horakhty blasted Zorc, but Zorc jumped out of the way. The light hit Mariku instead. He screamed in pain.
"Fuck!" he cried falling to the ground.
"Mariku, are you okay?" I asked running over to him, kneeling down beside of him to help him up.
"I'm fine," he said struggling to get up.
Horakhty glared at Zorc. Zorc cackled.
"You can't even hit your target sister!" he roared with laughter. "You can't even kill me in your own realm!"
"Oh really?" she asked "Go into the heart of the Realm of Light. I guarantee you won't survive there!"
"And if you go into the heart of the Shadow Realm, you won't survive there, so why don't you make it easier on yourself and go back to whatever the hell it is you do?" Zorc hissed.
"You're lucky I kept you alive." Horakhty said
"You're too weak to kill me." Zorc laughed.
"Yes that's why almost all of your power is gone and you don't have anyone left on your side." Horakhty pointed out.
"I don't need anyone!" Zorc snapped. "All I need is power!"
"You'll never have enough power to defeat me." the Goddess of Light said.
"You can't kill me, if you kill me then all of the darkness will go away." Zorc said.
"I know!" she snapped. "But that doesn't mean I can't do other things."
"Like what?" he laughed "I'll always have control over Mariku and Touzoku!"
"Wrong!" Mariku said suddenly. Everyone turned to face Mariku. Mariku didn't look at us, only Zorc. "I thought that by following you I'd have Bakura, that he'd love me, not the pharaoh. You tricked me, promising me power and that I would have Bakura, but you lied! You knew he wouldn't ever love me and you were going to throw us both away! I believed everything you told me, and then when I was falling into the lava, it was the pharaoh who saved me, no you just kept blasting Diabound! You laugh at everyone's pain, well, it's about time someone gave you a taste of your own medicine!"
"Talk to me like that again, fool and I'll kill you on the spot!" Zorc shouted.
"You can't touch me!" Mariku yelled.
Zorc shook with rage, starting to conjure up some fire, but Horakhty knocked it out of his hand.
"You are in my realm, which means you follow my rules! Now then: where is Akefia?" she hissed.
"I already told you, that he's dead!" Zorc laughed.
"Then how is Diabound still around?" I asked."Stop lying Zorc, you can't lie here!"
"I can do whatever the hell I wish!" he roared "I'm leaving this dump, bye sister, I love you"
"You did at one time." Horakhty said. Zorc stopped turning around. Mariku and I blinked, watching the twins. "Then you became evil because you wanted Ra's place and you wanted my place."
"Of course I did!" Zorc shouted. "Twins are supposed to be equal! You took everything away! Sending me to some unknown place, so I used my powers to manipulate Touzoku's life."
"What did Bakura ever do to you?!" I shouted fists balling at my sides, I shook with anger.
"Nothing." Zorc said with a shrug."I just thought it'd be fun!"
"I'll show you fun!" I roared trying to run up to him, but Mariku caught me, holding me back.
"Let go!" I yelled struggling to get free from his grip.
"Pharaoh, calm down. You can't beat Zorc on your own." Mariku said tightening his grip on me.
"I want to kill that sorry son of a bitch!" I yelled.
"Atem, calm down." Horakhty said "Let me handle Zorc, you need to find Bakura."
"But I don't know where he is." I said calming down, Mariku released his grasp.
"Follow your heart." Horakhty said, "you'll find him."
Zorc burst out into a fit of laughter.
"What the hell is so funny?!" I shouted.
"You." he said between fits of laughter."All of you."
"What about us?" Mariku asked.
"You think that following your heart is going to find Touzoku?!" he yelled. "It won't! He's too far into the darkness, he's mine! You'll never have him, he'll always return to me! No matter what! So following your heart is pointless! Love is a sign of weakness, suffering is strength, it gives you power!"
"Oh really?" I asked "So is that why Bakura summoned Diabound to protect me!?" I yelled "Is that why Mariku is still alive? Is that why Bakura fought all of those years! Because of hatred! No!"
"He doesn't love you!" Zorc sneered."Get it through your mind!"
"Whether he does or not, I still have to find him and I will bring him to the Afterlife before the year is up!" I yelled.
"Good luck with that fool, there's only five more months left, after that, Touzoku belongs to me!" Zorc said licking his lips.
"WHAT?" I shouted I turned to Horakhty who hadn't said anything. "is it true?" I whispered.
"It's true, Atem" she said
My eyes widened, tears rolled down my cheeks. "Why?"
"I had to make an agreement with him" she said.
"You didn't have to put Bakura on the line!" I cried
"I'll explain, I know you think that I did this to hurt him, but I didn't, I'm doing this to help him." she said
"How the hell is that helping him, sending him to the Dark God?" I yelled.
"Akefia has done some things that are not going to pass judgment, as you know. I sent him to the Realm of Light for him to find himself. I knew the he was going to break my rules, I knew he'd return to Zorc. When you find him, you have only five months to help him realize that Zorc isn't who he claims to be, if you cannot, as I've said before you'll be trapped in the Realm of Light and Bakura will belong to Zorc. He will belong to him because he would have given up, not because I'm allowing Zorc to have him, do you understand?" she asked.
I gulped, nodding.
"Do not waste your time on Zorc, he is a distraction, let me handle him. You find Bakura." Horakhty said.
"Okay." I said wiping the tears away. Mariku and I started to head toward the gate.
"Oh and Mariku." the Goddess of Light said.
Mariku turned around to face her. "Yes?"
"You're next" she said.
[No one's POV]:
"You didn't have to lie to him sister." Zorc said.
"I wasn't lying." Horakhty said turning back around to face Zorc. "You know that I don't lie, brother"
"And you know that I do, so let's cut to the chase, what do you want?" he hissed.
"Release your control on Akefia." she replied. "I want you to stop playing these stupid games of yours."
"And why would I do that dear sister?" Zorc cackled. "You know that I need him."
"No, you don't!" Horakhty yelled. "You're a God, Zorc, act like one!"
"I am!" he shouted."You're the one not acting like one! You use your power to help people! How pathetic! You're supposed to use your powers to make sure you get what you want!"
"And look where it leads!" Horakhty yelled
"Yes, with people afraid of me, doing everything I want them to do…." Zorc said. "The list is endless, so much power; you should use it, sister."
"I will not use my powers to hurt people. I am a Goddess, it's my duty to protect them." she said.
"And it's mine to destroy them so where does that leave us?" he asked."You know that we are the complete opposites, light and shadow, good and evil, though, you just think you're good, but you're really not." Zorc spat.
"Explain." she said.
"You feed everyone lies. Telling them that light and love bring happiness? That when you find your soul mate that you'll be complete, such foolishness, you're just afraid someone will rise to greater power than you! You're so pathetic! You keep lying to everyone, lying to Touzoku about his soul mate setting him free! He doesn't have a Ra damn soul—"
Suddenly Horakhty blasted Zorc. Zorc went flying further into the Realm of Light. Zorc hissed landing hard in the golden sand. He sat up, trying to conjure his powers but they failed. Horakhty flew over to Zorc.
"I've already told Akefia this and I won't say it again: do not speak about the Gods like that!" Horakhty hissed inches from Zorc. Zorc pushed her out of the way, standing up.
"Why do you care about the others anyways?" Zorc asked. "You know it's their fault that we can't see each other anymore."
"No, they're not!" Horakhty yelled. "It's yours! You're the one that decided that your powers and your job wasn't good enough, no you wanted the whole entire world! You abuse your powers, thinking that you can use people to get what you want! But you'll never be satisfied! Will you? No! Do you want to know why?"
"Enlighten me sister." Zorc said with a smirk.
"Because you're evil! You think you're so smart, manipulating a child! He was seven years old when those items were created! He couldn't save them! You dare blame Aknamknon! You want everyone to be miserable just like you are!" Horakhty shouted "I won't have it Zorc! You will be punished!"
"Punished for what?" Zorc asked. "Making Touzoku see the truth? That love holds you back! Because it does! I was trying to help him!"
"You were using him to benefit yourself, and then you were going to throw him away!" Horakhty roared.
"So?" Zorc said with a shrug."There's nothing wrong with that, once you're done with something, you throw it away, I'm not a hoarder you know!"
"He is a person! You don't throw people away! Learn your place, brother!" Horakhty shouted.
"My place is the entire world! When I gain my powers back, I'll have control over everything, including the Afterlife and I'll destroy your realm!" Zorc cried.
"You won't win!" Horakhty said.
"The Pharaoh has five months to find Touzoku, to wake him up and for him to pledge his love the Pharaoh, that's all! You know how fast time goes in our realms! He won't make it! Then, the infamous King of Thieves will become mine." Zorc said licking his lips.
"Atem will save him." Horakhty said. "Mark my words, he will."
"We'll see." Zorc said with a sadistic grin.
"I know what you're planning and it won't work." Horakhty said
"We'll see" Zorc said again.
"Yes, we will, you'll get what's coming to you Zorc." she said.
Zorc rolled his eyes. "You really are stupid aren't you?"
"I'm smarter than you are." Horakhty hissed.
"Says you." he laughed "But when I get someone, I get them. Touzoku will never belong to the Pharaoh."
"That's where you're wrong Zorc." Horakhty said
"What?" Zorc hissed
"Bakura has always belonged with Atem. They're soul mates, when they realize that the true Bakura will be unlocked, you will not win against him."
"He's a fucking pathetic weakling who is scared!" Zorc cackled.
"No, you're the pathetic weakling! You think you're so tough, using people, manipulating them, controlling their lives and mind! You think you're so smart but you're not! You're nothing! You'll never come to full power acting the way you do! I don't want to kill you, but I will if I have to!"
"But you can't kill me!" Zorc said "I control the darkness!"
"I know that!" she snapped.
"So what are you going to do sister? Lock me up? Throw away the key? Get rid of my powers. If you truly think that the pharaoh can truly save Touzoku. Then let me enter the Shadow Realm with no restrictions." Zorc said
"Do you think I'm that stupid Zorc?" Horakhty snapped.
"See?" he said "That just proves right there that you think the Pharaoh is too weak!"
"I don't think Atem is weak at all!" Horakhty shouted.
"Then prove it!" Zorc cried. "Let, me go back into the Shadow Realm and then we'll see who Touzoku really chooses: him or me"
"Okay, Zorc, the deal is still on." she said.
"Yes, yes." he said waving his hand in the air, turning to go into the Shadow Realm.
"Oh and brother?" she said.
"What?" he hissed turning around to glare at her.
"I stripped you of your powers." she said before disappearing.
[Atem's POV]:
"Where do you think Bakura is?" Mariku asked. We had been walking for what felt like hours. Everything looked the same here.
"I'm not sure." I replied.
I wasn't. I had no idea where Bakura could be at. Something happened when Mariku used the Millennium Rod to transport us to the Realm of Light, but how was Diabound and Zorc? I looked up, Diabound was flying over us searching for her master.
"I can't believe that's Bakura's Ka." Mariku said staring at Diabound in awe.
"I was shocked when I first saw her too." I said "She tied with Obelisk the Tormentor in strength."
Mariku stopped I ran into him. He turned around to face me "Are you serious?"
I nodded.
"How?" he asked.
"Blue-eyes" I replied. As we started walking again.
"Blue-eyes?" Mariku asked "That doesn't make-"
"Diabound's special ability, when she defeats monsters in battle, she gains their powers." I said.
"Are you serious?" Mariku asked "So what if she were to defeat Zorc…"
"She can't defeat Zorc, only Horakhty can" I said.
"I don't understand why Horakhty had an agreement with Zorc though…" Mariku said trailing off, becoming lost in thought.
That was a good question. I knew that Horakhty had sent Bakura to the Realm of Light to find himself, and with the help of his soul mate he would be unlocked. But putting Bakura on the line like that, it was awful. I knew that Horakhty wasn't doing it to be evil, but what if Bakura didn't want to be saved? What if he was so far in the darkness that the light couldn't save him?
No, he would be saved, I knew he could! I knew that the real Bakura was trying to break through, I saw it in his eyes, the first time we made love; how he let himself go. I knew that the Bakura I had met 5000 years ago would never do that, much less let me kiss him.
But how much will power did Bakura have? Would he let himself fall into the darkness, would he believe Zorc's lies? Would he even ever wake up?
I knew that Bakura wasn't dead, I felt it, Diabound must have as well; she was determined to help us find him at all cost. But time was running out, the time in the Shadow Realm and Realm of Light worked twice as fast as it did in the world of the living, so time was crucial.
We continued to walk, the screams of pain echoing in my ears, some begging to be saved. I wish I could save them, but I couldn't, I didn't have any power here and I had to save Bakura. I looked over at Mariku who was looking at the ground, watching the shadows go by.
"I can't believe that idiot!" Mariku growled.
I didn't say anything. Mariku had been played just like Bakura; I knew he'd have a long way to go, I wonder how his punishment would go. So far he was acting pretty nice around me, but that would change more than likely. I would keep my guard up with him, not until he proved to me that he's changing.
Though, I could see it in his eyes, they weren't glazed over with hatred, they seemed more like someone who had been hurt, someone who was used to being thrown away. Marik created him out of fear of his father and the pain of the initiation, so Mariku's true personality was to protect, I assumed. Nothing was making sense anymore. I didn't have time to ponder on Mariku; I needed to find my Bakura.
My Bakura, when did I claim him for myself? I announced my love to him and we made love in the Shadow Realm, it was simply amazing, but Bakura never said how he felt about me. I had asked him, before he ran off. How did Bakura feel about me? Surely he didn't hate me, if he did then none of this would have happened. Not unless he was playing with my heart.
But Bakura wasn't like that, no he was straightforward and to the point. He wasn't ashamed of anything. So why did he become terrified when I asked him how he truly felt about me? Why did he become terrified when Zorc and Mariku demanded that he either kill me or rape someone? Why did he hesitate, was the answer not obvious?
I had lived my life, more than I should have. I had made many friends, and I loved each and every single one of them, they all held a special place in my heart, but Bakura….
He was my soul mate.
I had been with a few people in my life time; none of them came close to Bakura. None of them made my heart skip a beat or caused me to get lost inside of their eyes, they were important to me, I cared about them, maybe loved a few of them, but being in love, no, Bakura took my heart and soul, he made me smile. He made me angry, he made me cry. He was the one person that refused to bow down to me; he was the one person that knew exactly how to get under my skin. And that's what I loved about him.
If someone would have told me that I would fall in love with the King of Thieves then I would have laughed at them. I never thought I would fall in love, I wasn't worried about it, I was trying to protect the world from the man I ironically, fell in love with. But did he feel the same? I knew his hatred for me was gone, maybe not completely, but it was gone. The real Bakura came out when he subconsciously summoned his Ka. But why would he have done that? What caused him to pass out? Zorc and Mariku were telling me what he had to do and Bakura was completely in a daze, his eyes were wide with fear. He was staring into mine, yet, he wasn't. It was like he was completely out of it, then; he just collapsed onto the ground. I was terrified, I thought for sure he'd died, but something told me that he was still around. So where was he?
"Can I ask you something?" I asked.
"Go ahead." Mariku said.
I took a deep breath, before beginning… "Do you know what Zorc did to Bakura?"
Mariku stopped suddenly. "No" he said. "But I know it must've been pretty bad, I mean he did some pretty fucked up things to me but I think I'll be able to break through his darkness."
"Do you think Bakura will?" I asked softly.
Mariku turned to face me. "If anyone can put Zorc in his place, it's Bakura. He's stronger than he thinks he is. I know he can get through this."
I smiled "You're right, thanks Mariku."
"Sure. he said turning back around.
"Mariku" I said.
"Hmm?" he asked.
"Thank you." I said.
"For?" he asked
"Everything" I replied.
"You shouldn't be thanking me." he spat "you should be trying to kill me-"
"I know you've done some pretty bad stuff, but so did Bakura, I'm forgiving him right?" I asked.
"No." Mariku said closing his eyes, he shook his head "you don't understand."
"I know I don't understand why you did those things, but you were influenced by Zorc, he promised you power and in reality he was just using you." I said.
"No, Pharaoh you don't understand!" Mariku cried.
"I-"
"I raped him!" Mariku shouted.
My eyes widened, the world was spinning. What more could Bakura possibly endure!? First he loses his home, his mother, sister and father in one single night, then he meets Zorc and is raised to believe that hate and misery make you strong, and love and happiness hold you back. Then he was locked in the Millennium Ring for 5000 years in isolation, then he comes back, using Ryou's body to get back at me because he believed that my family destroyed his home on purpose, then I defeated Zorc and Bakura was sent to the Realm of Light. We met back up after a while, we argued and fought and then, we made love.
The emotions that Bakura must be feeling, the fight that he's going through, it must be terrifying and hard. I had to help him. He had been hurt too many times; I wouldn't let it happen again. Zorc said that Bakura was a "sex freak" I could see why now. Koranna told me about Nalori, how she was raped and the thought of sex terrified her greatly. She told me that people who are raped either are afraid to have sex or they have too much of it.
I guess Bakura was the one that had too much…
I wanted Bakura to realize that I wasn't using him. I wanted him to know that I loved him, I truly loved him, I wanted to talk to him, to spend time with him, to hold him. I knew a lot of people were just after his body, but I wasn't. I was after his heart.
Me: You know Microsoft Word is so stupid…like okay so you know the sentence "Let me go back to the Shadow Realm….it wanted me to put "I" okay that's not even correct English! "Let" is a verb so you're supposed to use "me" after verbs! Uggh! I decided not to do Spell/Grammar Check today and I did it all myself so hopefully this chapter wasn't too stupid because I've noticed that a lot of times the words I don't want are in here…like "does" instead of "don't" whatever…
Anyways, I hope y'all enjoyed :D